Projects

Esplanade Quarter

The Minister for Planning and Environment commissioned Hopkins Architects to produce a masterplan for the Esplanade Quarter site, this masterplan was adopted by the States of Jersey in June 2008. The fly through video illustrates what the Esplanade Quarter could look like.

Esplanade Quarter masterplan provides for a mixed use development comprising 620,000 sq.ft of office accomodation, 388 residential units, 130,000 sq.ft hotel/serviced apartments, 54,000 sq.ft retail/restaurants, 1,420 basement parking spaces and the lowering of La Route de la Liberation.

The Esplanade Quarter will be delivered in phases, the first phase will provide 470,000 sq.ft of office accomodation and has been rebranded "Jersey International Finance Centre".  The office accommodation will be delivered in six standalone buildings that will provide occupiers with natural light on all four sides.

The Jersey International Finance Centre will be located on the existing Esplanade surface car park site and can be built without changing any of the existing road networks or junctions.  The lowering of La Route de la Liberation will not form part of Phase 1.

The public car parking facilities currently provided on the Esplanade will be temporarily relocated to a neighbouring waterfront site and therefore during construction there will be no loss of public parking. On completion of the development, the same number of public parking spaces will be provided underground.

The Jersey International Finance Centre will generate significant returns for the Public purse which can either be paid back to the States Treasury via a dividend and/or utilised in regenerating other parts of St.Helier.